Crontab

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Sat, 30 Sep 2006, Jason Carson wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> How do I run a program every half hour?

    In your crontab file put:

0,30 * * * * /path/to/program

    Or, if you prefer:

5,33 * * * * /path/to/program

    Or...

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